Farm life is rolling at full steam now. This past week we packed our first round of CSA share boxes. It's incredible how much produce needs to be harvested to fill all 477 boxes. A share weighs around 7 lbs. I'll let you do the math. This week's share included bok choi, arugula, braising mix, radishes, a pound of salad mix, oregano, butter crunch lettuce, and green romaine.
It's a great feeling to be able to get all that fresh organic produce out to the members. However, I don't think people really understand what they are getting when they receive their beautiful box of veggies. They don't see the thousands of hours we've spent on our hands and knees planting by hand, hand weeding, hand harvesting, hand washing, and packing veggies in the blazing sun, in the freezing rain, in mosquito and black fly infested fields, 10-12 hours a day, etc etc etc...
If you receive a CSA share, I hope you take the time to thank the farm workers for all their back breaking work. It literally is back breaking as we spend all day hunched over vegetable fields not even making a living wage. Organic vegetable farming is not glamorous. This industry is fueled by the blood and sweat of low wage labor. As we were told, "If you cut yourself, don't bleed on the vegetables."
Here are some highlights from our first harvest week:
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| Salad Mix |
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| Red Oakleaf and Romaine |
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| Braising Mix |
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| Braising mix bunched |
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| Arugula |
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| Radishes |
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| Washing |
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| Getting ready to pack |
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| The packing line |
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| Scapes! |
Hope you escaped the storms this week!
Jack
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